The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars

Within Sellars's ethical theory lie answers to a number of pressing questions. In resolving questions, and combining Sellars's work with the latest work, this book presents a strikingly original and comprehensive theory that has much to contribute to contemporary debates in ethics and metaethics.

Jeremy Randel Koons is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He has published widely in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, and other areas. His most recent book, The Normative and the Natural (co-authored with Michael P. Wolf) appeared in 2016.

Introduction: Situating Sellars's Ethical Theory in the Contemporary Landscape Chapter 1: Sellars's Synoptic Vision Chapter 2: A New Naturalism Chapter 3: Moral Judgments as Shared Intentions Chapter 4: What Are Sellarsian We-Intentions? Chapter 5: Practical Reasoning and the Logic of Intentions Chapter 6: Material Practical Inference Chapter 7: Cooperative Rationality and We-Intentions Chapter 8: Defeasible Rules and the Particularist Challenge Chapter 9: Rules, Pattern-Governed Behavior, and Collective Attitudes Chapter 10: Moral Motivation 1-Against the Humean Account Chapter 11: Moral Motivation 2-Sellars's Kantian Account Chapter 12: Against Moral Foundationalism Chapter 13: Categorical Validity and the Necessity of Community Chapter 14: Sellars's Mistaken Formalism Chapter 15: Sellars's Ethical Naturalism